Black-foot.

There is a powerful and numerous tribe of North American Indians called Black-feet. A black-foot is an intermediary in love affairs; but if perfidious to the wooer he was called a white-foot.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Black Cap
Black Cattle
Black Cattle
Black Death
Black Diamonds
Black Dog
Black Doll (A)
Black Douglas
Black Flag (A)
Black Flags
Black-foot
Blackfoot (The)
Black Friars
Black Friday
Black Game
Black Genevan (A)
Black-guards
Black Hole of Calcutta
Black Horse
Black Jack
Black Jack (A)